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Originally Posted by IndyIan
Well, what else do you do every day that wastes 10 minutes? Stop doing that and your back to even! or get up 20 minutes earlier and you get a bonus week of vacation! 
I have a 50.5km commute each way that takes about 35-40 minutes driving "normally" (ie trying to go 100km/h, passing people, getting angry, etc...)or about 45-50 minutes striving for efficiency. I find I am much more relaxed when I get to work after hypermiling and it gives me something to do while driving. I chose to live out in the sticks so I might as well make the most of it and I save about $2.00/day which equals a nice shotgun or some other toy.
Also, if you can, pulse and glide to a higher average speed, do 70 to 50mph, you still save gas than driving a steady 60mph bored out of your skull.
Ian |
I don't disagree, obviously, since I continue to drive in that fashion and have for the last two years and eight months. My point is that there's more to the choice than "do I want to save gas or do I want to drive fast." Many web sites dedicated to saving fuel will say "the time lost is negligible." I'm just opining that it isn't necessarily negligible and that we (those of us who drive slowly to save fuel) are making a multi-dimensional choice. I'm not complaining, I've put my time where my mouth is.
By the way, since time=money and knowledge=power, knowing that power=work/time and substituting, knowledge=work/money. Solving for money, we see that money=work/knowledge. Therefore, money increases without limit as knowledge goes to zero.
In case you were all wondering...